Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Tue, 7/16/2013 - 11:37amChad Johnson0 Comments var addthis_config = {ui_click: true,data_track_clickback: true,data_ga_social: true,data_ga_property: UA-317164-6};
EHRs are poorly designed.
Health Information Exchange organizations are not financially sustainable.
Patient portals are a poor substitute for real patient engagement.
Will Meaningful Use be a victim of future budget cuts?
Since you're interested in health IT and what I like to call "the modernization of healthcare," you've undoubtedly read articles that advance the above opinions or, at the very least, read headlines that state similarly worded phrases. Implementing new technologies and changing an entire business model is extremely difficult, no doubt, but I worry that the prevailing sense of negativity perpetuating these stereotypes may discourage organizations from taking action and making bold moves in their health IT environments that improve patient care.
By following the age-old journalism tenets of newsworthiness (which includes conflict, extremes or superlatives, scandal, incompetence, and hypocrisy), is our industry creating a thought bubble similar to what Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman describes in his concept of "What You See Is All There Is" (WYSIATI)? In a 2012 Q&A with the Monitor on Psychology, Kahneman offers this summary of WYSIATI:
"People are designed to tell the best story possible. So WYSIATI means that we use the information we have as if...

Source: NeoTool Healthcare IT Blog - July 16, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: chad.johnson at corepointhealth.com Source Type: blogs